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...Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...
Nome seemed to Dr. Kennedy no place to settle down and raise a family but, said he last week, "It's swell for getting experience. I expect to stay there for a few more years-at least until the war is over." Next month, after seeing his girl (a WAAC), he will return, start "letting those Eskimos hound me to death again." Further incentive for being hounded to death: $1,000-$2,000 a month gross, which has allowed Dr. Kennedy to pay all his debts and show a nice profit. In the U.S. he would be lucky...
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis was described in last month's War Medicine by Drs. Michael J. Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...
Champion Ned Day has practically retired from tournament play. In partnership with Comedian Harold Lloyd (Hollywood's best bowler) and onetime Champion Hank Marino, Day operates a profitable "bowling establishment" at Santa Monica, Calif., within earshot of Douglas Aircraft war workers. But to help swell the gate receipts of this year's All-Star Bowling Tournament (for the benefit of Chicago's Service Men's Center), Champion Day was persuaded to defend his title once more before entering the Navy -not only against Challenger Crimmins but against the ten highest scorers among the 100 All-Star...
...they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints to swell the ranks of the new Utopia...